How AI helps farmers adapt to climate change: The story of AgriTech Analytics
Stories & Blogs ITCFeb 12, 2025(Story )Smallholder farmers face growing climate challenges, but AgriTech Analytics is using AI-powered data and smart technology to help them build a more sustainable future.
How Burundi’s coffee producers can comply with EU deforestation rules.
Stories & Blogs ITCOct 24, 2024(News )In the beautiful hills of Ngozi province, Burundi, coffee farmers are taking on a new challenge: aligning their production with the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Announce Tanzania as the Second Country Benefitting from the Enhanced Cooperation Framework for Scaled-Up Climate Action
Stories & Blogs IMFOct 10, 2024(Press Release )Tanzania is highly vulnerable to climate change which poses significant risks to its macroeconomic, fiscal, and social development.
Ethiopian Agri-tech Joining Farmers to Meet EU Goals on fighting Deforestation.
Stories & Blogs ITCJul 10, 2024(News )The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) aims to ensure that products imported into the EU do not contribute to deforestation.
Agriculture, digital service, artisans and beekeeping offer path to jobs to refugees in Kenya.
Stories & Blogs ITCJul 10, 2024(News )County officials, business leaders and leading non-government organizations reviewed the findings of a study that looked at ways to create jobs and grow the economy in Turkana County.
Deforestation-free value chains must not shut out small producers
Stories & Blogs ITCJun 12, 2024(Speech )Deputy Executive Director Dorothy Tembo delivered her opening remarks at the Deforestation-Free Value Chains Roundtable, part of the WTO’s Committee on Trade and Environment session.
Turning cotton to clothes could create 500,000 jobs in West Africa
Stories & Blogs ITCJun 11, 2024(Update )West Africa’s five biggest producers mostly export raw cotton that’s processed elsewhere. A new study shows that by building local industry to turn cotton into cloth and clothing, the countries could create 500,000 jobs.
Rising Cyber Threats Pose Serious Concerns for Financial Stability
Stories & Blogs IMFApr 09, 2024(Blog Post )Greater digitalization and heightened geopolitical tensions imply that the risk of a cyberattack with systemic consequences has risen